Pothook



9 1950 D. E.- GLANDVILLE 2,503,108

- POTHOOK Filed Dec. 16, 1946 I nveutar Daniel E. Glandville PatentedApr. 4, 1950 are UNIT-ED 'S'TAFIiES PATENT OFFICE Daniel E. Glandville,Reno, Nev., assignor, by direct and mesne assignments, to Ladder HookCompany, a corporation Application December 16, 1946, Serial No. 716,662

1 Claim. (Cl. 248-211) 1 This invention relates generally to holders forpaint pots and the like, and more particularly to a reversible hooksecurable to a rung of a ladder for the temporary and adjustable supportof a paint pot or water bucket for the convenience 5 second hook 20,similar to the hook l6, and having of painters, fruit pickers and windowWashers. a shank portion 22 integrally secured to shank An object ofthis invention is to provide such portion I8 as by welding, is disposedin the same a hook or holder in a form adapted for the supplane but atan angle of 180 with the hook l6, port of such a pot or bucket on theouter side of the holder being thereby adapted for reversal, either ofthe stiles of a ladder. 10 that is positioning on the other end of therung Another object of this invention is to provide M, as will behereinafter more full described. such a holder so designed as to retainthe bail A mid portion 24, integral with the shank poror bucket inclinedinwardly toward the said stiles tion [8 and disposed normally thereto,is prefof the ladder with a view to making said bucket erably of alength slightly greater than the width more convenient or accessible. ofthe front face of a stile of a ladder, this mid Still another object ofthis invention is to proportion 24 being adapted to span and rest uponvide a holder with a spring hook for the ball the said front face of thestile, as best illustrated of a bucket, to forestall any likelihood ofthe said in Figure 1. bucket from becoming inadvertently detached Theoutward end of the mid portion 24 is downfrom the hook. Wardly curvedand integral with the depending And a last object to be specificallymentioned portion 26 which with the upstanding integral is to providesuch a holder in a form which is inportion 28 comprises a hook for abail 30 of a expensive and practicable to manufacture, being bucketrepresented at 32. This lower hook poradapted for construction of roundstock, extion is preferably tempered or otherwise made tremelyconvenient for the use of ither right slightly resilient so that theupper end of the uphand or left hand painters and others, and whichstanding portion 28 is yieldably held close to the is generally adaptedto provide for efiicient and depending portion 26, to provide for asimple durable service. latching of the bail 30 within this hook. A lip34 With these and other objects in View as will may be provided on theupper end of this porappear hereinafter, this invention resides in cer-30 tion to facilitate the entrance of said bail 30. tain novel featuresof construction, combination With the foregoing description of themechanand arrangement of parts and portions as will be ical details ofthis holder in view, th method of hereinafter described in detail andparticularly operation will be obvious to those skilled in the set forthin the appended claim, reference being art to which this inventionappertains. One adhad to the accompanying drawings which form 35 vantagewhich will now be clear, and in addia material part of this application,and in which: tion to the object and advantages recited above,

Figure l is a fragmentary front elevational view is the facility withwhich the holder, with or withof a ladder with a paint pot secured onthe outer out a paint bucket secured thereto, can be maslde of one ofthe stiles thereof by means of this nipulated and changed from side toside of the improved holder; 40 ladder, the double hooks on the upperend of the Figure 2 is a side elevational view of the strucdeviceproviding convenient handle means not ture shown in Figure 1, the figurebeing techprovided in other devices of this general charnically avertical sectional view taken on the line acter. 2-2 in Figure l, andthe rungs of the ladder Obviously this device can be manufactured fromare shown in section; and other material than that specified above, andfiat Figure 3 is a perspective view of the holder. stock of considerablethickness may be substi- Similar characters of reference designatesimtuted for the round stock represented in the ilar or identical partsand portions throughout drawing. the specification and throughout theseveral views Though there has been shown a particular of the drawing.embodiment of this invention, this application Referring now to thedrawing in detail, it will be noted that the ladder having stiles l0 andI2 and a plurality of similar rungs I4, secured therebetween accordingto conventional practice, is

,shown with this invention secured operatively 2 thereon. At the upperend of the device, a simple hook I6, formed with a relatively longdepending shank portion I8, is proportioned and otherwise adapted toengage a rung M of a ladder. A

is not limited to this particular embodiment, but it is desired toinclude in the scope of this invention the construction, combination andarrangement of parts and portions substantially as set forth in theappended claim.

asaawe r Having thus described this i'i'ifientiofi, what is claimed asnew and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:

A holder of the class described comprising two upper oppositely disposedhooks adapted for 5 selective engagement on a rung of a ladder, amidportion disposed substantially normally to the common plane of saidhooks and adapted to be supported on the forward face of a stile of saidladder, and a lower depending hool; to receive the 10 bail of a pail.

DANIEL E. GLANDVILLE.

Number Name Date 7 982,604 Herring Jan. 24, 1911 1,880,319 Iasillo Oct.4, 1932 1,927,315 Kamp Sept. 19, 1933

